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=__Amendment 19: Women's Suffrage__=

=__What does the amendment guarantee or promise?__= This amendment guarantees all American women to vote. =__What issues led to the creation of the 19th Amendment?__= Women in the women's rights movement picketed, protested, and spoke out ilegally in public how and why they wanted to have a political voice and vote in elections. =__**When was it ratified?**__= The 19th amendment was proposed on June 4, 1919. However, it was not ratified by 36 states until August 18, 1920 by President Wilson. It also was not declared part of the Constitution until August 26, 1920. Link: [|wikipedia.com] =__**How does the amendment apply in today's government?**__= This Amendment applies to most presidental elections and any other elections. Most women did not abuse this right because it would be taken away. =__**When was it first introduced to the United States government?**__= Votes for women were first seriously proposed in the United States in July, 1848. =**__What women are important to our society today?__**=
 * __**Eleanor Roosevelt**__ (__**October 11,1884-November 7,1962):**__ One of the most improtant people in women's society; wife and first lady of late president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She helped her husband in campaigns, talk shows, speeches, and as a reporter. Link: [|First Ladies-Eleanor Roosevelt]
 * **__Hillary Clinton:__** Former first lady, senator of New York, and wife of former president Bill Clinton; currently running for president against Barrak Obama. She is one of the first women to run of president.
 * Link:http://www.hillaryclinton.com/ Current events: [|Hilary Clinton-New Tax Law] [|2nd Current event] [|3rd Current event]
 * __**Sandra Day O'Connor:**__ The first woman to ever be a judge in the Supreme Court; met her husband John Day O'Connor and Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist at Stanford law school.
 * Link:http://www.oyez.org/justices/sandra_day_oconnor/
 * **__Geraldine Ferraro:__** The first and only women to run for Vice President; former House of Representatives member (1979-1985). She was also elected for an ambassador for the United Nations from 1994-1996. Link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Ferraro
 * **__Susan B. Anthony__** **__(February 15,1820-March 13, 1906):__** She attended a district school. She was the first to create a first public crusade. Link:http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/sba/bio.html
 * **__Elizabeth Cady Stanton__** **__(November 12 1815-October 26, 1902):__** She was the architect and author of the women's rights movement's most important strategies and documents. Link:http://www.nps.gov/archive/wori/ecs.htm

__Current Event Summaries:__

 * **__PK-__** My current event is about the new Tax Reform Act, which will determine some possible winners and losers of the 2008 presidental election. Hillary Clinton is in the winner's circle, with Barack Obama and John Edwards. This act is the biggest move on taxes since Ronald Reagan's Tax Reform Act of 1986. This will reduce taxes on American citizens. I think this is fair because American citizens benefit from lower taxes and the race for president is even closer now due to this system. Even though it may point out winners, it also points out losers and possibly very close candidates.
 * **__Sam:__** My current event is from the author Jonnathon Zimmerman. This is the 19th Century reforms. Hillary Clinton poised to become become the first female canditate to run for president.In the early 1800's white men were allowed to vote but women were not allowed vote. My opinion is that in the 1800's not only men but women should be allowed to vote, because women are human just like the men. Both genders should have equal rights to vote and participate in politics.
 * **__Alan:__** My current event is about Hillary Clinton's softer image help to win: aides. It helped propel the first lady to suprise victory in the New Hapshire race for the Democratic party presidential. I say if Hillary wins the 2008 elections, she might allow this amendment to work in any places that applies to voting. I also agree that both genders should have the same rights to vote and participate in politics. It is not right if just men are able to vote, but it's right if both women and men are allowed to vote.


 * __More facts about the 19th Amendment__**
 * The urge for this amendment was made history during the women's rights movement in the mid-1800's. Early in this movement, in 1840, women and abolitionists were not allowed to participate in the "World's Anti-Slavery Convention" in London.
 * In 1848, however, several of hundreds of women attended a meeting in Secena Falls, New York. This meeting was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and others. This meeting also led to the creation of the //Secena Falls Declaration of Sentiments//, a document that showed how women were oppressed.
 * During the Civil War, no additional women's rights meetings were held.
 * The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did little to include women in politics, even though they did involve black people in politics, such as vote and becoming a citizen.
 * Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton contirbuted to women's suffrage with NWSA (National Women's Suffrage Association) and the AWSA (American Women's Suffrage Association). Between 1865 and 1890, NWSA gained little effort through the courts, but was attracted through voting ballets just for women in the 1872 presidental election. AWSA stated the New York women may have possession of belongings before marriage, allowed women in school elections in Kansas in 1860, and Kentucky allowed women suffrage in schools in 1831. By 1890, fifteen other staes joined Kentucky.
 * In 1890, both women's rights groups, became the NAWSA (National American Women Suffrage Association), which focused on female suffrage and federal suffrage. However, between 1896 and 1910, the movement was losing a lot of support from the states. Then in 1908, the NAWSA began collecting signatures to presuade President Theodore Roosevelt, and excepted the rightin 1912, but unfortunately lost his third campaign back into the White House as president.
 * In 1910, there were a lot more supporters for the movement. New suffrage groups formed, more women went to college, and churches began to support the cause again.
 * In 1913, the women and abolitionists marched in Washington, D.C. the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration as president. The riot was so loud that U.S. troops had to quiet them down!
 * The AWSA an the NWSA split in 1914.
 * In 1916, the majority of the women suffrage supporters were ready for achieving newe new amendment in the Constitution. by 1917, President wilson excepted the women's suffrage movement, and he was ready to set an amendment in 1918.
 * During World War I, even more supporters joined the cause. Women continuted to picket, riot, and parade through streets and speak publicly. However, women were assulted and harassed, and also put in jail. 218 women were arrested and 97 women are sent to jail.
 * The NAWSA pushed to place an amendment for womens; rights in the Constitution. Finally in 1918, President Wilson asked Congress to consider a women's suffrage amendment.
 * Then on June 4, 1919, Congress finally excepted the 19th Amendment. After the election of the date 1918, most of the members of the Constitution were prosufferage. The House of Representatives passed the amendments by a vote of 304 to 89 on May 21, 1919.
 * Women finally had the right to vote for presidents, mayors, and school boards. This right also let women speak out in public politically.
 * Following the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Fifteenth Amendment, the state courts which passed on the effect of the Amendment ruled that it did not confer upon women the right to vote but only the right not to be discriminated against on the basis of their sex in the setting of voting qualifications.

= = =This is one of the documents from the Constitiution.= =This text is from the 19th Amendment document.=

Following the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Fifteenth Amendment, the state courts which passed on the effect of the Amendment ruled that it did not confer upon women the right to vote but only the right not to be discriminated against on the basis of their sex in the setting of voting qualifications.



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__=__Links to more information__=__ Patrick "PK"**
 * 1) [|Timeline]
 * 2) [|Proposal and Ratification]
 * __This project on the 19th Amendment was created by:__
 * Sam**
 * Alan**